Activity 1-A:

http://community.fpg.unc.edu/connect-modules/resources/videos/foundations-of-inclusion-birth-to-five

• a. How would you feel if you had been “in the shoes” of Jay’s parents and your son had been excluded from attending school?
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• b. Explain the desired results of early childhood inclusion (definition key components/slides 15-21). What is meant by access? participation?supports? (defining features of inclusion/slides 18-21)
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• c. How do you react to the finding that children with disabilities make adequate progress in language and cognitive development in inclusive settings compared to self-contained settings? What benefits do you think typical children gain from inclusive settings?
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• d. How would you explain the definition of inclusion to a friend?

Activity 1- B:

RESOURCE: SpecialQuest

Creating Bright Futures

http://www.vcu.edu/partnership/specialquest

(Routed through VCU/Partnership site so that it streams the video)

Instructions: After opening this link you will find several videos listed.

Click on "Creating Bright Futures"

Complete the Guided Viewing handout - Session 1, Handout #3

http://www.specialquest.org/sqtm/v1s1_viewing.pdf

The guided viewing questions are:

• What vision of inclusion is illustrated in the video?

• What do families and EC/Sped.Ed. professionals say about their experiences?

Activity 1- C:

Reflect on the two videos viewed (Foundations of Inclusion Birth to Five and Creating Bright Futures), then answer the question:

• Video #1 addressed “the letter of the law” and Video #2 addressed “the spirit of the law”.

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• Which do you think is more important and why?

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• Write a persuasive argument to explain your answer

Assignment Two: On Using Person 1st Language

Special Quest Appendix D

Resource: An article by Kathy Snow about the importance of using person 1st language .

The Link to the website: Disability is http://natural.com is included below. This linked page contains the "People First Language Article". You have permission to download the pdf and share with students for educational purposes as long as there are no changes made to the article and copyright credit is provided

http://www.specialquest.org/sqtm/appendix_d.pdf

Downlad article, read, and answer discussion questions

On Using Person First Language

(A Hard Copy is provided in the 120 Binder and it’s on the wiki)

Discussion:

1. Why is it important to identify a person by who they are rather than the disability they may have?
2. What 'disability' might you or someone you know have that you have never recognized as a disability?
3. Ms. Snow shares in her article that 'disability is not the problem'. What you think she means by this?
4. What are the 'real problems' of disabilities in our culture as stated in this article? Do you agree?
5. Have you seen or experienced negative attitudes and/or barriers towards people who think, talk, walk or look differently than others? How did that make you feel?
6. Provide 3 phrases that will help you to‘re-frame’ the way you describe people, using person-first language. (ex. “My brother, who is in the autism spectrum”, rather than: “My autistic brother.”